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Raymond Jacberns (Georgiana Mary Isabel Ash) (illustrated by Harold Piffard), "Home Fetters" (SPCK, c.1905) - hardback fiction book
Raymond Jacberns (pen name of Georgiana Mary Isabel Ash) (illustrated by Harold Piffard), "Home Fetters" (London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., c.1905). Hardcover fiction book (green cloth boards with printed pictorial decoration to front and spine), 224pp plus black and white frontispiece and two other black and white illustrations, measuring approximately 13.4 x 20.1 x 3cm (5.3 x 7.9 x 1.2in). A story for girls - moral although not overtly religious in tone - "published under the direction of the General Literature Committee" of the SPCK: Elspeth Campbell, daughter of a London doctor, stays for a year with her aunt and cousins in their disorderly house in the village of Caulthorpe; there she exerts an improving influence upon the management of the household, but is blamed for making her cousin Valerie discontented with home life.

No dustjacket; there is considerable wear, marking and discoloration to the cover, and both endpapers are missing; the pages are slightly discoloured with tanning, foxing and/or light damp staining to some edges, various marks, paper loss to a few corners (not affecting the text), occasional creases, and wear and bumping to edges and corners; there is some slight weakness to the binding.

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